House passes 30-day surface transportation funding extension amid infrastructure stalemate

[AZProgressive]

Source: The Hill

The House on Friday night passed legislation to reauthorize funding for highway and transit construction programs that lapsed the day before in an effort to avert thousands of worker furloughs and interrupted projects.

Lawmakers passed the 30-day stopgap measure on a bipartisan basis with a vote of 365-51.

The short-term extension now heads to the Senate, which is expected to clear it as soon as Saturday and send it to President Biden's desk.

The roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which the Senate previously passed in August, would renew the lapsed highway and transit programs through the rest of this month. But since the House has yet to take up that bill amid Democratic infighting over negotiations for the sweeping social benefits package, the transit programs expired with the end of the fiscal year on Thursday.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/574990-house-passes-30-day-surface-transportation-funding-extension-amid?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. 30 days is miniscule

[Ron Green]

2. Most of these highway projects (and some of the transit ones) should be allowed to die.

American DOTs are stuck in a 1970s paradigm, moving more and faster traffic less safely for people outside of cars and hampering community wealth building everywhere.